Published date: 15 November 2019
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
School cleaning services - 90919300
Location of contract
North West, South East
Value of contract
£5,000,000
Procurement reference
2019/S 215-527994
Published date
15 November 2019
Closing date
9 April 2019
Contract start date
1 September 2019
Contract end date
31 August 2024
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
The successful supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Aldridge Education at the following locations:
- Brighton Aldridge Community Academy,
- Portslade Aldridge Community Academy,
- Duke's Aldridge Academy,
- Kensington Aldridge Academy,
- Darwen Aldridge Community Academy,
- Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio,
- Darwen Vale High School,
- Sudell Primary School,
- UTC@MediaCity.
Aldridge Education is a multi-academy trust (the "Trust") established to fulfil the Aldridge ambition of growth through education. The Trust is running a cleaning services tender project covering nine schools located across the North and South of England and seeking to appoint supplier(s) with experience of schools of all types and sizes and delivering innovative ideas to provide cleaning services at our existing facilities for the benefit of all our users and customers - students, teaching, support staff and community users.
There are currently 8 schools within the multi-academy trust plus Aldridge Education also sponsor a single academy school, taking the number of schools to 9.
We are a growing Trust and require the flexibility to increase our cleaning requirements should the number of academy schools grows.
Our school year is based on a calendar of 195 days of which 5 days are to be used for staff professional development which means that our schools are open to receive students for the legal minimum of 190 days. All our schools are open to community users throughout the year during evenings, weekend and during school holidays. The successful supplier(s) will be required to provide cleaning services to meet the needs of all customer's/users of the school facilities.
The value of the current cleaning provision across all nine (9) schools is approximately 1 000 000 GBP per annum.
The nine (9) schools in the Trust are geographically located in the North and the South of England and the ITT will be structured in two (2) lots. It is not mandatory for suppliers to bid for both lots. Suppliers are encouraged to bid for all schools in the relevant lot.
The Trust currently has a mix of school types - a primary school, a UTC, a Studio, and secondary schools with and without sixth form.
The Trust expects the successful supplier(s) to provide high quality cleaning services which meet minimum standards in terms of outstanding and consistent quality across all 9 schools whilst also providing services that are tailored to meet the needs of a typical school in the relevant specific school type. The Trust will look for evidence of this in the supplier's tender response.
The Trust currently has a mix of insourced and outsourced provision with 4 incumbent providers, further details in the table below. The Trust expects the successful supplier to have experience of managing transitions from insource to outsource and from incumbent outsource to the new provider.
Further information is provided in the SQ Document.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Aldridge Education - Tender for Cleaning Services
- Opportunity
- Published 8 March 2019
Links
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- https://litmuspartnership.co.uk/sq/aldridge-cleaning/
- Bidding documents
- SQ Documentation ~ Aldridge Education (Cleaning)
Additional text
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Interest in the selection process should be expressed via email only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.
The Selection Questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: https://litmuspartnership.co.uk/sq/aldridge-cleaning/
The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 9.4.2019 (12:00). Suppliers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.
Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Selection Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.
It will be the Supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.
The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this Contract Notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.
The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.
The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.
Award information
Awarded date
12 August 2019
Contract start date
1 September 2019
Contract end date
31 August 2024
Total value of contract
£3,336,434.11
This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.
N-Viro Ltd
Address
Portsmouth
United KingdomReference
None
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
Additional details
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Lot 1: South
Bulloughs Cleaning Services Ltd
Address
Skipton
United KingdomReference
None
Value of contract
£0
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
Additional details
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Lot 2: North
About the buyer
Contact name
The Litmus Partnership
Address
Aldridge Education
30 Millbank
London
SW1P 4DU
England
Website
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Closing: 9 April 2019